California Exceptionalism. Why the Golden State is different

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg Center for American Studies), language: English, abstract: This paper, in contrast, suggests that the notion of being exceptional - or as a noun: exceptionalism - does also exist within the United States. The particular example is the state of California in the western part. The paper aims at ill...